Reforms, Incentives, Welfare and Productivity Growth in Chinese Wheat Production

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a ...

Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms

Why doesn’t capital flow into fast-growing countries? This paper provides a model incorporating heterogeneous producers and underdeveloped domestic financial markets to study the joint dynamics of total factor productivity (TFP) and capital flows. When a large-scale reform eliminates idiosyncratic distortions and liberalizes capital flows, the TFP of our model economy rises gradually and capita...

The Productivity Effects of Decentralized reforms: An Analysis of the Chinese Industrial Reforms

Incentives and pharmaceutical reimbursement reforms in Spain.

The aim of this paper is to assess whether cost containment has been affected by recent pharmaceutical reimbursement reforms that have been introduced in the Spanish health care system over the period 1996-2002, under the conservative Popular Party Government. Four main reimbursement policies can be observed in the Spanish pharmaceutical market after 1996, each of them largely unintegrated with...

Growth and Production of Wheat